That quote comes from one of the leaders of a team that already has lost two other games—to Iowa State and Charlotte.

Interestingly, in two of the three games Michigan has lost, McGary has scored fewer than 10 points. He scored 15 in Tuesday’s loss to Duke, but eight of those points came in the final 1:47 of the game, when the Blue Devils already had the game in hand.

So there may be frustration of not getting enough touches. Or seeing three losses from a team that was the national runner-up last season. Or maybe it’s seeing freshman point guard Derrick Walton commit a team-high 20 turnovers—eight more than any other player. Maybe it’s on himself because of the back injury he’s working back from. Maybe it’s all of the above.

Whatever the case, Michigan has four more games to right itself before Big Ten play begins. Two of the games come against BCS-level competition in Arizona and Stanford, and another is against Holy Cross, which has performed well against top-level competition this season.

Meanwhile, Sulaimon is feeling similar frustrations, but it’s all on him. Coach Mike Krzyzewski said earlier this year Sulaimon did not enter the fall in top condition, and teammate Tyler Thornton told The News & Observer on Tuesday that Sulaimon just needs to man up.

"He knows what he needs to do, I don’t really want to speak on that," Thornton said. "He have a week and a half until our next game. We have a lot of practice time. Hopefully we can get what we need out of him in that span."

Since scoring in double digits in Duke’s first two games, Sulaimon has scored 8 or fewer six straight times before Tuesday’s DNP.

"He has to play better than the guys who played tonight," Krzyzewski told reporters of Sulaimon not playing.